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mittee. The Secretary was directed to thank the Gov- 
ernment for the communication and report. 
A letter from J. M. Gaskin, Barbados, offering to 
recruit Barbadian labourers for the planters of the 
colony was also referred to the Agricultural Committee. 
Mr. Abell's communication on his Automatic Fire- 
men was again allowed to stand over in the absence of 
the writer. 
The Chairman stated that he was sorry to hear 
(although it had not been officially notified to the Society) 
that Mr, B. Howell Jones who had been commissioned 
by the Governor on the recommendation of the Com- 
mittee to represent the colony at the Columbian Exposi- 
tion, had resigned. If this was the case he thought 
something should be done to recommend another gen- 
tleman. 
The Secretary of the Exposition Committe stated that 
a meeting of that body was to be held on the following 
Monday, when the matter would receive attention. 
The Chairman stated that in accordance with the reso- 
lution of the previous meeting a copy of the Report of 
the Government Commission on the best way of opening 
up the country had been procured and now lay on the 
table and was open to discussion. 
Mr. Watt asked if the Government had supplied the 
copy to which the Chairman answered in the affirmative. 
Mr. Mackay said he rose to a point of order. Under 
the sixth section of the Society's A6t of Incorporation it 
was stated that " an essential principle of the constitu- 
tion of the said society shall be the total exclusion at its 
meetings, and its proceedings of all questions of a 
political nature or tendency; and which principle no 
